"Did Tanya... why, by the way, was she named Tanya? It's not a Southern name, is it?"- - - "No," said Fanny, "it's as Russian as Vladimir. But only a few people ever pronounced it correctly. I always did. Most people said 'Tan-ya', like the color tan. She and her mother hated it when that happened, and complained. I suggested they replace the a in Tan with an o, but they preferred to make a lifelong habit of correcting people. - - -